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At so earlier date, when you Poh TRADING WITH GERMANY. Den anded toe urat squadron, spent! rime time plak bir at Wilbeliisharon, on

TEXTILE TRADES DECISION. HIS RIALS

board bis fagahip, the

"the Westfalen. He An important decision in regard to the MANY IN COMMAND. was a good but not a forceful officer, very question of trading with former enemy The latest of the great man of the war proud of the five guns (only in.) and the countries was arrived at at a meeting of to admit tho public into his confidence is good gunnery of his squadron. On board the Textile Section of the Landon Cham- CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR Grand Admiral von Tirpits. It cannot that ship I thought I saw germinating, ber of Commerce, held at Cannon-street

be said that the partini publication of the the evil which finally undermined the on November 5th. A resolution put for

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moral of the German Fleet-thë attitude Grand Admiral's reminiscences has added of the aristocratio executive officers to the ward by the chairman, Mr. John Payn DINNER DANORS will be held to our knowledge of the war, but engineering personnes As chief of the ler, to the effect that while the undesir

staff, von Pobl was disinclined to mad ability of goods from former enemy.coun- we are enabled to penetrate a little more actively the fleet which Tirpitz bad built tries being allowed free and unlimite on the following

during deeply into the real causes of the in. He had not the ictus of Lount Buceon to British marketa was recognised, CHRISTMAS WEEK –

efficient working of the German Fleet." [`sin," an "officer of whom all the German"

The German system used to be extolled had been his predecessor six years before perly open to members of the textile, sec- officers I have met spoke very highly, who those countries should be regarded si pro-

as presenting the maximum of advantage Von rohl and von Müller were agreed for the waging of war by sen a well that the High Sea Fleet must observe, attion and traders generally so far as they least in the early stages, a watchful and considered fit, having regard to the neces- by land It placed in a single hand, in waiting strategy, and they evidently insity of salating enemy countries to pay formed with the will to win all the fluenced the Emperor. It is strange that indemnities, and of increasing the supply the German command should be accused sgancies for attaining the object. Now of the same kind of reticence which was of available goods, was defeated. Aa We 600 more clearly that this view was imputed, in some uninformed quarters, to alternative resolution was passed a fol- entirely erroneous. The direction was the British Grand Fleet.

lows:** That, in the opinion of this meet- not in the hands of one at of many."

ng of the Textile Trade Section of the Confusion reigned. in the departmensa. Political obstacles were placed in the way of the Lotive employment of the feet inroughout the war, and there was no The Popular Entertainere, THE MISSESgle command over the whole of tier ALLEEN AND DORIS WOODS, will appear many's naval forces, in the above CHRISTMAS DANCES.

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Admiral von Tirpitas adversaries were London Chamber of Commerce, business not willing to allow the Emperor to sne with former enemy countries should not render the High Sen. Fleet into Tirpitz's be resuined until his Majesty's Govern hands. Before the war the plans had not be declared their trade policy.

ment bave been divulged to him. They were not him the Associated Chambers of Commerce ba affair Admimal von Ingeniohl, com asked to bring all possible pressure to manding the fleet, interpreted his orders bear upon the Government to make a de von Tirpitz was, to some extent, kept insible date in a defensive sense. Although Admiral faite announcement at the earliest pås-

ain of German Dayal alininistration will the dark on the naval situation", nat

The chairman, in moving his resolution, not be realized unless his own position be being summoned to the Kaiser's confer explained that he had brought the matter known Like other men of strong charlenees, he boldly requested the Kaiser to forward in consequence of numerous in- ter he had, magnited his cities, and thus place the control of the navy in the bands quiries, made throughout the tale ha to

hould be and invaded the sphere of the naval staff of one man. His request, being concert whether or not business relations and created a situation from which with a question of command, was for resumed with Germany. He regarded it sprang jealousy and rival, ambitions warded through van Pahi He would a very pressing problem, and it was Admiral o dirpite was for at have recommended you Pohl himself if necessary that some attitude should be number of years State Secretary of the the latter had been, a stronger man but taken. Niney the Armistice they had been Imperial Navy Office. His position was on July 29th, 1914, he told Admiral vot disappointed, as citizens, to find that the cost of living did not go down, and that closely analogous to that of the Chier of Miller that if the proposed office were the Navy Board under the alt system of created, presumably it would have to be world of citizenship, was very much dis- the whole industrial world, the working British naval administration. His was entrusted to him, Tirpitz. To this the located by present conditions. There undoubtedly a master mind, whose work Kaiser would not agree, but Tirpitz WR fore, the question of competition came ng was revealed long ago in plans he so great & personality and had been so before them, and whatever views they PALACE

idvanced for overcoming a deadweight closely concerned in the Imperial naval might bold, consideration, would have to HOTEL KOWLOON.

of national resiste naval expansion, plans that he could not be left in the be given to the consumer, and it was Corner of Halyhong à Hankow Ronda

and giving a consistent direction of effort cold. A compromise, was accordingly ar- Ti; Adtron↑ RAIMON

in a situation which was confused and ranged on July 30th-the damned possible that the competition of "German gooda might be a good thing At Any TWO Minutes from Ferry and Railway becure. There has been successive plans word compromise, as Lord Fisher rate, something in the way of a' policy

station. This Hotel haa fust been of coast defense and then of a "sallying ***

was needed to guide the trade as to whe Pobl was to consult Tirpitz-his super ther it would to a well-advised course for completely renovated, and refinished "is feot," a feet which would1imme forth, 20 now up-to-date in every and under what damage it could, and then return. or in rank-on naval plans and the them to say that the time was not yet.

English Management

But Tirpitz conceived the really brilliant latter could make representations to the and that as self-respecting traders in the Cuisine under personal superviion of the idea of the Risikoprincip, which Emperor. The scheme became a dead City of London they would have, no deal-

Proprietor.

otlay the Navy Law of 1900 and all letter. But almcat immediately, onings with German goods. The scrupulous. its amendments There was to be a Beet August 3rd.. Tirpitz sent orders to the tradere might be called the sentimental to strong that no nation would run the Mediterranean squadron to attempt to trader had to be protected against those risk of interfering with the world objects break through to Constantinople. In who had not similar scruples and such of Germany. This principle became of non this action, as Chief of the Navy Office, steps might be taken is would enable all effect, because these objects became such he heems to have acted ultra vires. He to start lair.

There

was a long discussion on the ques- that the had to be run, and in this ways the orders were dispatched despite country, prodigious cost, very efficient the hesitations of the Chief of the Staff, tion, the majority of speakers being end- means were taken to reduce the risk to but they were cancelled by the German phatic in their opposition to the pro posal. The alternative resolution was A simum. The Risikoprincip was ground that the move would, at the modissentient

Embassy in Constantinople, o

eventually drawn up and passed with ons Lowever, the mainspring of German naval expansion from 1900 or enrliar until the ment, be undesirable. outbreak of the war. When it failed the AN IMPOSSIBLE SYSTEM Gerindas, had no resource except to recur had anything comparable in efficiency to

The truth is that the German never HOIST WITH I

¤ BIŚ OWN to the strategy of the sallying flect.

the British Admiralty system. Seven

PETARD. high officers all appealing to the Kaiser Admiral von Tirpitz was the man who to consider their reports, settle their di spent the money. He organized and putea, or accommodate their plaas.and ained "thips of all classes, and recruited naval camarilla attached to the Court, maintained dockyards, built and main all this business altering through a small officers and men, in the sense that be war and presided over by an admiral who allows for the full bloom of the Prussian General Ludendorff'a memoirs, if one responsible for their material require might be junior to some of the high mentality which inspires them, are quite.. ments. That was why he always appear officers, and who, in any case, must be the most interesting and not the least ed in the Reichstag to explain the Navy persona grata to the Emperor, must have fair of books on the war. If one way Estimates. He aroused public opinion created a ganglionic entanglement and asked to declare what was the most by most vigorous propaganda in favour confusion utterly detrimental to all de startling feature of these volumes one of the Navy, and he developed all kinds cisive action. The cup was fled when would say at once the immense import- of establishments for the Flect he built Admiral von Pohl was appointed to com ande attached by the head of the great Not in any modern navy has such a work mand the whole fest, only to be smitten Headquarters Staff to war propaganda..

accomplished. The Emperor said

British experience in this matter bas that Tirpitz was his man. The two work by a fatal disease. ed together in the stupendous develop succeeded in galvanizing the feet into a which attracte the attention of civilians Admiral Scheer, who followed him. suggested the belief that this is a topic ment. Many people became jealous of posture of activity. But the dead hand and is apt to be despised by the streng the ascendency of the admiral, and once, when he was furiously attacked, the Empresence of colonast strength; its funetary authorities with whom our official

was upon it. It was impotent in the silent soldiers. It was the British mili peror in reported to have exclaimed, "I will not let them take my Tirpitz from only the U-boat commanders received death grapple from the very first month tions were obscured; it was forgotten; propagandists fourd themselves locked in But, as time passed on, the situation after Jutland: the engine-room personnel

credit: the big fleet never recovered of the war up till the armistice, changed. New influences arose, and Tir brought mutiny and the spirit of the pitr's position was weakened. His dominabore into the ships; and the pitiably im ant personality bad caused him far to potent surrender off Inchkeith was the exceed the limits of his official duties outcome. It was for him to build ships, but he Admiral von Tirpitz throws some light had nothing whatever to do with the apon these matters from his own point manner in which they were employed of view, but the light is insufficient It Strategy and tactics were not within his were much to be desired that Admiral vory province. All this was the work of the Müller, Admiral von Ingenohl, and Ad Admiralty staf, the agency of command, miral Scheer would illuminate further whose chief was directly responsible to this great naval side of the war.-Timer. the Emperor. Theoretically Admiral vou Tapits would build ships to meet the views of the staff, though there was a time when be strongly resisted the diversion of money to the building of submariner. It was bis ambition to control the whole Navy, and not merely the material side Cofit Not only was the Chief of the Stail responsible directly to the Kaiser, but

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public opinion. Not so Ladendorff, that typical Prussian, is ob- General sussed with the effect of propaganda on national moral, which be considers the corner stone on which the military edifice

is built. Not only between the armed forces did the combat rage along these huge fronts and in distant oceans. The moral and vital force of the civil popu lation was assailed with the purpose of corroding and paralysing them.

Twelve hundred motor trucks, abandon-it is impossible to read any chapter of also severally the Commanders-in-Chiefed by the German Army in the area taken his book without coming scross some re in the Baltic and North Sea, the over by the Americans as part of the termice to the weakness of German pro-

armistice material, were sold spector of Training, and the chiefs of ridicate of German “automobile de paganda and the strength of the Allied

recently to OR Including Tirpitz himself, seven work of the Coblenz branch of the United High. Bea Fleet and the cruisore squad. This deal virtually completed the method, and towards the end of the first high officers had right of direct approach States Liquidation Commission which bea to the Kaiser. The Kaiser must have been under the direction of Junina G. been much more than a superman if he Adams, of Ashville, N.C., Special Commis could have controlled and directed all sioner of the American Army of Occupa these chiefs of departments, not to speaktion

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We were hypnotised by the enemy, pro- volume he devotes pages to the subject Paganda as a rabbit te by a snake. It on a great scale. It worked by strong was exceptionally clevet, nad conceived. man suggestion kept in closest Couch with the military situation and was un- scrupulous se to the means it used.” Oas can imagine how this lack of scrupulosity must have shocked the Biamarckian school.

of the like for the Army, and other duties Continuation of I disposal of surplus of the State. “Admiral "von Tirpitz ivariny material in occupied Germany will right in saying that there was no unity bereafter be under the direction of & gea- of command. The system had never pro-eral sales board of the American Forces in vided for that. There was to be no de Germany of which Lieutenant Colonel, T f1041 zogation from the position of the Kaiser

Kruttschnitt has been appointed In England the whole propaganda DEVON FOHL'S HOSTILITY.JA pe chief. The army board will be under the service was placed under Lord "Beaver- An attempt was made to solve the cervision of the liquidation commission, brook, with three directors, of whom problem by giving the Emperor a naval with beadquarters in Paris until the final Lord Northclife attended to memy coun- and & military Cabinet Admiral on perty of the American Army at the Ant-paganda, and Lord Rothermere to the stocks are sold. The sale of surplus pro tzles, Kipling, to home and colonial pro- Müller was Chief of the Naval Cabinet. UTATIONE He appeared to Tirpitz, to whom he he werp base which also has been completed work in neutral countries. While Came betile to be an obscurantish kind brought to the government $14.000.000, Entente propaganda was doing even more in á KIURATE of person, a paciist, a man in society and most of the goods being disposed of to harm to the German people and, the army home, oma popular among the ladies. Von Maller better price than could have been obtain the determination to fight in its own

the Belgian government, thus bringing and navy, it succeeded in maintaini JE MORNING, INC. Was a sort of éminence grise standing ed in the United States countries and armies, and in working

fro Du La between the Emperor and the navn By the sale of a part of sarplas stocks DAN 1, 201 Con Beth as in rose touch with Herr of the American Forces in Germany much against us in neutral countries. In the

Bethmann-Hollweg and other poli- of which was sold to German civilians of moral blockade “Kaks 10 PINKMAN Bestial personages. The lats Admiral von the sum of $11,000,000 was realized

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Dane Co Foil, chief of the Admiralty staff was Among the material sold recently to Ger-raly, a Department of Prop

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rells of the Civil